DISEASES OF FARM ANIMALS 20I 



will run its course in from two to three weeks and 

 no medicines will be necessary. In cases where 

 considerable cough prevails, the custom of putting 

 a piece of camphor about the size of an egg in a 

 pail of boiling water and holding the horse's head 

 over it from a quarter to a half hour at a time is to 

 be commended. The bowels should be kept free 

 and open. Any of the ordinary purgatives will do. 

 If weakness occurs, give 4 tablespoonfuls each of 

 tincture of ginger, ground gentian root and sweet 

 spirits of niter in a half pint of water three times a 

 day. Two tablespoonfuls of nitrate of potassium 

 given once or twice each day in the drinking water 

 is also desirable. As the trouble abates, the med- 

 icines suggested before may be dropped and in 

 their place a teaspoonful of sulphate of iron and a 

 tablespoonful of ground gentian root may be given 

 daily in a bran mash or oatmeal gruel. 



Intestinal Worms in Horses. — Intestinal worms 

 may be classed as large and small. The large 

 worms inhabit the small intestines, and the small 

 ones the large intestines, the larger class of worms 

 being more readily reached by worm destroyers than 

 are the smaller ones, as the small intestines begin 

 at the stomach and as remedies leave the stomach, 

 the worm soon receives the dose prepared for it, 

 while if one dose has to pass through about 60 feet 

 of intestines before reaching the smaller worms in 

 the larger intestines, much of the worm remedy is 

 lost by mingling with the food, and diluted by 

 mixing with the digestive fluids. Thus what is a 

 remedy for the large species of worms will have 

 little effect upon the smaller ones. 



As a farmer's dose for the larger species of 

 worms, none, perhaps, is better than the following: 

 Oil of turpentine, 2 ounces ; extract or oil of male 



